Anthony Edwards was named an All-Star for the third straight season in 2025. After finishing fourth in the NBA with 27.6 points per game for the Minnesota Timberwolves, he's likely to make his second straight All-NBA team as well. That career-high scoring mark was due in large part to a massive improvement in Edwards' three-point shooting.
Not only did he put up a career-best efficiency rate from out there (40 percent), he also led the league in both three-pointers made (320) and triples attempted (811). However, he also led the league in a more dubious category during the 2024-2025 campaign: technical fouls.
The hot-headed guard received a whopping 19 technical fouls this year to give himself the sole lead ahead of Houston Rockets guard Dillon Brooks, who had 18.
Thankfully for T-Wolves fans, Edwards is acutely aware of not only the fact that he's been called for a lot of techs, but that because of that, refs will be quicker to T him up than others. Because of that, Edwards said he will not get even one tech in the postseason. The outspoken star hilariously vowed that he will be "super quiet".
"Yeah I won't get no techs. I won't say anything. I'll be super quiet. One hundred percent."
“Yeah, I won’t get no techs. I won’t say anything. I’m going to stay super quiet. One hundred percent.”
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) April 17, 2025
Anthony Edwards on watching his technical fouls ahead of the playoffs 😅
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Technical fouls have always been an issue for Edwards. He was quiet through his first two seasons, but starting in Year 3—coincidentally his first year as an All-Star—Edwards has been among the most T'd up players in the NBA.
In 2022-2023, he was fifth with 15 techs, the next year he was fourth with 16, and this year, he finally made it to the mountaintop.
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It's not great to see your best player getting technicals so often. But seeing as how the techs started coming when he became a star and have risen each year along with his scoring average, perhaps it's something of a necessary evil.
Nonetheless, Edwards has promised he will keep his emotions in check and avoid giving refs a reason to punish him during the 2025 postseason. He gets his first test against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of their first round series on Saturday night on ABC.
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